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For a moment there my heart stopped in the hope this new project will bring the one thing I've been missing the most: decent binary package management. Alas, n

by Nux 13y ago

For a moment there my heart stopped in the hope this new project will bring the one thing I've been missing the most: decent binary package management. Alas, no.

elktea 13y ago
How's FreeBSD's pkgng these days?
- alcari 13y ago
  See [1] for an explanation of why pkgng isn't useful, especially the April 30th update: "...Port managers are currently working on introducing new-style (as known as "pkgng") binary packages in the coming months, please check the FreeBSD ports announcements list for further gradual status updates." [1]: http://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html http://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html
- Wilya 13y ago
  It works fine, but there's still no official repository. Maintaining your own or using a third party is possible, but that's more of a temporary fix.
asdasf 13y ago
NetBSD could easily start using OpenBSDs pkg_tools to solve that problem.
- noselasd 13y ago
  How's it different from the pkgsrc tools coupled with the binary packages supplied by NetBSD (e.g. here http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/ http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/)
  - asdasf 13y ago
    OpenBSD's pkg_tools handle dependencies correctly, allowing you to do things like upgrade packages, dependencies, etc. It provides the same level of experience as apt.
binarycrusader 13y ago
I'm obviously biased (as one of the developers of IPS), but since some of the BSDs have integrated ZFS, seems like they should use the Solaris packaging system too :-) https://java.net/projects/ips/ https://java.net/projects/ips/